Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

The lie is a condition of life.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

No man was ever wise by chance.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.